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unusual facts about Spanish monarchy



Abjuration

Another famous abjuration was brought about by the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe of July 26, 1581, the formal Declaration of Independence of the Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

PIDE

Writers such as Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond) were based there, while other prominent people such as the Duke of Windsor and the Spanish Royal Family were exiled in Estoril.

Prince of Viana

Rather, it symbolizes the historical continuity of the former Crown of Navarre within the united Spanish monarchy.

Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle

Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle is a colonial castle built in the seventeenth century by the Spanish monarchy in La Asunción, Venezuela.

Solís Uprising

The Reino de Galicia—the Kingdom of Galicia, dating back to the Middle Ages——had been formally abolished thirteen years earlier under the 1833 territorial division of Spain, as were the other Iberian "kingdoms" that had fallen under the domination of the Kingdom of Castile and had been incorporated into a single Spanish Monarchy.


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Baltasar Anduaga y Espinosa

He translated and edited the works of Jeremy Bentham in fourteen volumes between 1841 and 1843, as well as the two volume Una Historia Constitucional de la Monarquía Española (A Constitutional History of the Spanish Monarchy) by Frenchman Victor du Hamel, published in France in 1845.

Buen Retiro Palace

The ceiling of the main room is decorated by a magnificent fresco by the Italian artist Luca Giordano, painted around 1696–1697 for King Charles II of Spain and depicting The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy.

Giovanni Battista Calvi

Prior to working for the Spanish Monarchy he worked as a civil engineer in Rome, under the direction of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, on the façade of Palazzo Farnese.

Latin American art

Colombian figurative artist Fernando Botero, whose work features unique "puffy" figures in various situations addressing themes of power, war, and social issues, has used this technique to draw parallels between current governing bodies and the Spanish monarchy.